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TruerMadness
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TruerMadness
13y ago
What happens if your eye sees pure 400nm light? There is some stimulation of the "red" receptor and more stimulation of the "blue" receptor. I think the fact that we DO see violet in the spectrum is more interesting than
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TruerMadness
13y ago
Violet is in the rainbow. Like magenta, it is a combination of red and blue (#8F00FF). This is because there's a second hump in the frequency sensitivity of the red receptor. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1